Baby James Is Already Insulting Ryan Reynolds

She's spitting out some choice words for her dad, he says

Ryan Reynolds, a man who diligently withheld his and Blake Lively's daughter's name for three months, revealed on Conan O'Brien's show last night that the now 7.5-month-old James is talking—and her first words make it clear who's the favorite parent.

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'Right now she's starting to say "mama," but there's an unfair advantage there,' Reynolds said. 'It turns out that breasts are actually a life support system, and the child seems to gravitate towards the breasts. I'm just the breasts-less asshole wandering around the room and getting in her sightline every once in a while.' And the Blake favoritism goes far beyond James's very limited vocabulary. '[Right now,] it's all about mom. I am dead to her. That's her first words, ironically: "You're dead to me."'

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Reynolds also recounted what went down in the hospital when his wife gave birth ('I was there for the conception of the child so the least I could do was be in the delivery room.'). It involved a lot of jokes from a possibly drugged-up Blake:

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